CHRISTOPHER LLOYD is a Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University. He has written or edited seven books on late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century French novelists and other aspects of modern French culture, including J. K. Huysmans and the fin-de-siecle Novel, Maupassant: Conteur et Romancier, Epidemics and Sickness, Mirbeau's Fictions, La Culture Populaire en France, as well as numerous articles and reviews in refereed books and journals.